Wed January 20, 2016
Company Faces Penalties for Worker's Fatal Fall
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Federal safety regulators have proposed $36,000 in penalties for a Lincoln construction company that employed a worker who fell to his death while installing roofing. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the company didn't provide required fall protection that the agency says would have saved the man's life....
Fri January 15, 2016
Man Missing While Buying Lottery Ticket Found at Construction Site
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A 67-year-old North Texas man with medical issues who disappeared while going to buy a Powerball ticket has been rescued from a 7-foot hole. Fort Worth police found Ascension Garcia scared and cold, in the hole at a construction site, but he suffered no serious injuries....
Fri January 15, 2016
Chinese Official Who Oversaw Hospital Demolition Fired
BEIJING (AP) - Local officials in a central Chinese province violated rules in forcibly demolishing part of a hospital, sending medical staff fleeing and burying under rubble six bodies being processed at a morgue, a state broadcaster said Sunday....
Fri January 15, 2016
Construction Worker Falls Into River, Dies in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police in Philadelphia say a construction worker has died after he fell into the Delaware River on the job. Chief Inspector Scott Small says officers were called to Pier 78 in south Philadelphia after 8:30 p.m....
Thu January 14, 2016
Excavator Falls Off Truck, Blocks Thruway Lanes Outside NYC
CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y. (AP) - New York State Police say all northbound lanes of the Thruway in Rockland County are blocked by a construction vehicle that hit an overpass while being hauled on a flatbed tractor-trailer....
Fri January 08, 2016
Contractor Sentenced to 15-30 Years in Deadly Philly Building Collapse
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A contractor hired at a cut-rate price to take down a building was sentenced Friday to 15 to 30 years in prison for its collapse, which killed six people and injured 13 others, and a second man awaited sentencing....
Sandi Doughton - THE SEATTLE TIMES - Fri January 08, 2016
Schools Tested on Their Seismic Safety
YELM, Wash. (AP) On the count of three, a scrum of sixth graders flung themselves in the air, landing with a thud that vibrated the ground under their feet. Nearby, their classmates huddled around a computer, watching jagged tracings scroll across the screen as sensors picked up shaking from the mini-earthquake at Lackamas Elementary School....
Fri January 08, 2016
Sheriff Calls Theft of Construction Equipment a Bit Unusual
WAHPETON, N.D. (AP)- Thieves made off with an estimated $25,000 worth of construction equipment from a shop in rural Richland County. The Sheriff's Office is still investigating the incident, which was reported Tuesday, Dec....
TOM PAULU - The Daily News - Tue January 05, 2016
Small Culverts, New Houses Contribute to Flooding
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - When Lomor Drive flooded in 1996, 3 feet of water washed into Diana Bach's house. She and her late husband, Gene, spent $30,000 to raise the home 4 feet. But last week's flood waters covered her front yard and driveway and came within inches of her floor....
Tue January 05, 2016
Worker Killed in Accident at Ford Plant Identified
CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities have identified a worker at the Ford Motor Co.'s Chicago Assembly Plant on the city's far South Side who was killed when a wall collapsed. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office says 45-year-old John Jaloway of Carol Stream was rushed to Advocate Trinity Hospital in Chicago where he was pronounced dead....
